Hopefully there's some good deals. Their first few midnight madness sales were pretty good. Scored a decent Compaq + 17" LCD for $280 AR. Then with the next one, got another Compaq for $200 AR which was fully loaded. Still sells refurb'd for $400+. The last time, thanks to you, was my $130 AR A64 3200+ It would have been $80 AR but I opted for a DVDRW from HP.
kronus
Ancient Member
posted: Oct. 31, 2005 @ 4:43a
AH! tellmetellmetellme!!!!!!!
Seems to be a thread at S-D. No deals posted yet. Onion, do you have an ETA for the Actual Ad?
Also at S-D they (Kev) is putting together Assault Teams so they can get what they want BF morning! AH! Sweet idea! Who hasn't wished for an assault team backing you up when going into WaltMart/WorstBuy on BF morning! They're even having a meeting a week beforehand to plan.
Seems to be a thread at S-D. No deals posted yet. Onion, do you have an ETA for the Actual Ad?
Also at S-D they (Kev) is putting together Assault Teams so they can get what they want BF morning! AH! Sweet idea! Who hasn't wished for an assault team backing you up when going into WaltMart/WorstBuy on BF morning! They're even having a meeting a week beforehand to plan.
They should dress up in army fatigues and use walkie talkies. Better yet they should run around the store pretending to have walkie talkies mimicking the sounds, but just talking to their hands.
nothing, i know i know, being slowly killed by anticipation. ugh. i feeeeeellll yourrrrr paaaiiiiinnn.
profile
Senior Member
posted: Nov. 1, 2005 @ 3:29a
onion said: Confirmed by disgruntled CompUSA employees which will hopefully acquire the AD details shortly. Please excuse the impertinence. On whose authority are these sources "disgruntled CompUSA employees"?
Thanks.
mefinney
Greedy Member
posted: Nov. 1, 2005 @ 7:44a
Between this and the XBOX 360 coming out three days earlier - I ain't gonna get no sleep that week.
papkov
Senior Member
posted: Nov. 1, 2005 @ 9:01a
working for FBI ? profile said: onion said: Confirmed by disgruntled CompUSA employees which will hopefully acquire the AD details shortly. Please excuse the impertinence. On whose authority are these sources "disgruntled CompUSA employees"?
MikeS0 said: The the BF deals generally in-store only? Any possibilities of ordering online at midnight as opposed to camping out at the store?
Long story short...
It depends, some deals may be available on-line. Usually the best "door buster" deals are not though.
trippnwo
Senior Member
posted: Nov. 3, 2005 @ 10:22a
scripta said: cmcdan1524 said: Thats gonna make for a long night!!!!!!!!! Hope I have room on the credit card?!?LOL. I might have to pay off my balance transfers
open a new BoA checking account and fund it with CC.
It is treated as a purchase and not a cash advance.
Free money (sort of)
profile
Senior Member
posted: Nov. 3, 2005 @ 3:14p
trippnwo said: scripta said: cmcdan1524 said: Thats gonna make for a long night!!!!!!!!! Hope I have room on the credit card?!?LOL. I might have to pay off my balance transfers open a new BoA checking account and fund it with CC.
It is treated as a purchase and not a cash advance.
Free money (sort of)How does this raise his credit limit, Mr. Greenspan?
oklbos
New Member
posted: Nov. 3, 2005 @ 11:27p
Here is the deal. At 11:59PM Thursday night...That's right, Thanksgiving night, CompUSA is opening up for a 24 hour sales. These deals are smoking hot. Take a look at the ad they ran last year, and then tell yourself they are going even lower. Not only that, they will have a 6 hour head start on the competition. Plus the rumor from the community is they bought very deep...very very deep. They do not plan to sell out until midnight the next day on these items. If that is true, this will be the hottest Black Friday ad in the history of Retail. If you look at their history, I believe it. Look back to the biggest midnight madness in history which was windows 95...the lines were 1500 people deep. Even if the lines are long this year, I can be in bed by 2am, instead of waking up at 3am. Finally, somebody figured out how to do this thing right. Get your laptop, Ipod, Bose Speakers, DVD's, gift cards, and go back to bed.
oklbos said: Here is the deal. At 11:59PM Thursday night...That's right, Thanksgiving night, CompUSA is opening up for a 24 hour sales. These deals are smoking hot. Take a look at the ad they ran last year, and then tell yourself they are going even lower. Not only that, they will have a 6 hour head start on the competition. Plus the rumor from the community is they bought very deep...very very deep. They do not plan to sell out until midnight the next day on these items. If that is true, this will be the hottest Black Friday ad in the history of Retail. If you look at their history, I believe it. Look back to the biggest midnight madness in history which was windows 95...the lines were 1500 people deep. Even if the lines are long this year, I can be in bed by 2am, instead of waking up at 3am. Finally, somebody figured out how to do this thing right. Get your laptop, Ipod, Bose Speakers, DVD's, gift cards, and go back to bed.Any *specific* deals?
oklbos said: Here is the deal. At 11:59PM Thursday night...That's right, Thanksgiving night, CompUSA is opening up for a 24 hour sales. These deals are smoking hot. Take a look at the ad they ran last year, and then tell yourself they are going even lower. Not only that, they will have a 6 hour head start on the competition. Plus the rumor from the community is they bought very deep...very very deep. They do not plan to sell out until midnight the next day on these items. If that is true, this will be the hottest Black Friday ad in the history of Retail. If you look at their history, I believe it. Look back to the biggest midnight madness in history which was windows 95...the lines were 1500 people deep. Even if the lines are long this year, I can be in bed by 2am, instead of waking up at 3am. Finally, somebody figured out how to do this thing right. Get your laptop, Ipod, Bose Speakers, DVD's, gift cards, and go back to bed.
CompUSA should definitely be interesting. Only a few of their midnight madness sales were hot, so hopefully this will be one of those few hot ones.
I'm game for waiting in line if the deals are good . Gonna bring my laptop and tether over EDGE on my cell phone so I can have internet while I wait, and also borrow my friend's T-Mobile Sidekick II for when I'm in the store.
oklbos said: ... Not only that, they will have a 6 hour head start on the competition. Plus the rumor from the community is they bought very deep ... very very deep. They do not plan to sell out until midnight the next day on these items ... Look back to the biggest midnight madness in history which was windows 95 ... the lines were 1500 people deep. Even if the lines are long this year, I can be in bed by 2am, instead of waking up at 3am ...Hate to burst the bubble. But this six-hour head start, coupled with the fact that most people are perfectly willing to stay up 'til 1:00 or 2:00 AM, means that the lines will be HUGE. There will be extraordinary competition.
And if these deals are as hot as you suggest, there is no way they will have enough stock -- it's not even physically possible. The example you use for comparison -- the milestone release of Windows 95 -- was for a small box of software, for which people were paying the full retail price ($90). In contrast, packaging for a single desktop, sans monitor, consumes the same space as multiple cases of software -- and ComputerUSAs aren't warehouses. Assuming these desktops will be offered for below-cost, demand will be off the chart.
In some ways, the only "hope" is that they employ their trademark staggered-sale approach -- with some sale items available from 1:00 - 2:00 AM, others from 2:00 - 3:00 AM, etc. This would force customers to cycle in and out of the store, allowing, to some extent, "the wealth to be shared".
Lastly, as far as lights-out by 2:00 AM goes, who are you kidding? Face it, you're a FatWalleter -- in all likelihood, it'll be a quick stop at Dunkin' Donuts, and then off to Best Buy.
Wow, what a blast from the past! I still have my old P233 HP sitting around doing nothing..it came with Win95b and it was awesome. That was my first computer so it has some sentimental value . One day I'll fire it up and see what it can do. What fun it must've been going from Win 3.1 to Win95.. Yeah, I'm a computer geek!
I agree with you though, the crowd is going to be insane. Well..that's what separates the true FW'ers from the casual lurkers
Wow, what a blast from the past! What fun it must've been going from Win 3.1 to Win95.. Yeah, I'm a computer geek!
I didn't go to Win95 until 1997! I didn't go to Win 3.1 till 3 years after it was out and I still mostly used DOS software.
Win98? Oh about 2002.. haha. And I'm really happy.
So what am I running now?
Win98SE. Happy as a very happy person. I ran XP and 2000 at the office. Bleth...
I'm happy here at home with Win98SE. (AND NEVER UPDATE VIA THE WEBSITE)
Avoid IE as your browser as well as Outlook Express Don't click on email attachments from people you don't know or expect and then only if they're text .. ps. Don't use MS Word (use AbiWord) ..
Get Opera Browser or Firefox. And if you do all that.. you can turn off or never load a virus scanner.
You're still running Win98SE?! I thought it was a decent OS (after having suffered through the shortfalls of Win95 and then nearly killing myself over the buggy-as-hell WinME!) but I could never leave it on for longer than a day..the memory leaks would slow down my system to a crawl. With WinXP I can leave my computer(s) on for a week at a time or longer.
I use IE6, Outlook Express and always update via Windows Update. Heh . Haven't had a virus since I started using WinXP back in '01 (?) or much spyware for that matter either. Smart browsing and good common sense is all you need . I'm in the process of recovering my aunt's computer after it became tainted with tons of spyware and viruses. She's not a computer nerd so it's not as easy to know what's okay and what is spyware. So - I'm hoping MS Anti-Spyware and Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE will keep her reasonably safe. That and Grisoft AVG.
My current desktop is an Athlon64 3200+ w/ WinXP SP2 and I'm looking forward to Windows Vista. I don't want to upgrade the OS for fear of incompatibility issues, so I'll probably pick up a cheap computer with it preinstalled instead. Heck my Compaq Athlon system was only $80 AR at CompUSA and it included WinXP!
PS: The one thing I don't miss is the BSOD. I don't ever recall getting one in XP. XP multi-tasks soooooo much better too.
Windows 98se rules. There're some pretty good third party service packs out there. I always keep it as a second OS on my PC for those old programs that dont run in XP.
Oh ya, before Win XP I had Windows 98se running for about a month at a time without any noticable slow downs at all.
totalandcompletenewb
Member
posted: Nov. 4, 2005 @ 7:58a
andre1000 said: I'm happy here at home with Win98SE. (AND NEVER UPDATE VIA THE WEBSITE) I hope you mean that you install the updates manually and don't use the windowsupdate site to do it. Windows 98 has several vulnerabilities that are present just by being connected to the internet--you don't have to run internet explorer or outlook express to fall victim to these.
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ra7
Senior Member - 1K
posted: Dec. 18, 2005 @ 6:52a
littlefish2004 said: I still haven't received the Hitachi HD and PC card that I ordered on BF.
How about others?
I ordered 2 of the hitachi. Received one 3 weeks back. But the other one is yet to be shipped. when I called customer service they blamed it on the warehouse saying that they are backlogged with the orders even though it's showing up as in stock now.
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